Corona Virus

[Guest]

One plus of this awful disease is it might finally have made some scruffy mugs learn how to wash their hands. 
Amazing how many people don’t bother even after going toilet. Makes me sick.

Fact places are sold out of hand wash these days tells a tale about the past.

[Izzy]

34 minutes ago, The People's Hero said:

Think of the peace and quiet! And full pay???

If I wasn't self-employed, I might almost go for that. Minus the inevitable death part.

First time today that this has officially got real for me.

 

I've got a major client based in Dublin where I'm supposed to be working 6 days over the next 3 weeks. The most lucrative work I do and significant income to me.

 

They've proper shit themselves over this virus and told all 8000 employees to work from home and the work I've got planned in has all been postponed or cancelled.

 

Now into the delightful arguments around cancellation terms/fees/contracts and all that shit 

[The People's Hero]

1 minute ago, Izzy said:

First time today that this has officially got real for me.

 

I've got a major client based in Dublin where I'm supposed to be working 6 days over the next 3 weeks. The most lucrative work I do and significant income to me.

 

They've proper shit themselves over this virus and told all 8000 employees to work from home and the work I've got planned in has all been postponed or cancelled.

 

Now into the delightful arguments around cancellation terms/fees/contracts and all that shit 

Yeah. The bro-in-law does AV for events and stuff and has had loads of work cancelled/postponed.

 

Bit shit really. 

[VLC86]

16 minutes ago, Izzy said:

First time today that this has officially got real for me.

 

I've got a major client based in Dublin where I'm supposed to be working 6 days over the next 3 weeks. The most lucrative work I do and significant income to me.

 

They've proper shit themselves over this virus and told all 8000 employees to work from home and the work I've got planned in has all been postponed or cancelled.

 

Now into the delightful arguments around cancellation terms/fees/contracts and all that shit 

Not good, i sense I’m going to have a huge financial hit as well with my o/h working in aviation.

[Fox92]

40 minutes ago, shanetko said:

One plus of this awful disease is it might finally have made some scruffy mugs learn how to wash their hands. 
Amazing how many people don’t bother even after going toilet. Makes me sick.

Fact places are sold out of hand wash these days tells a tale about the past.

And me. Can't believe it's taken a Worldwide virus and I hear people at work saying "you've got to wash your hands".

[FoxesDeb]

17 minutes ago, Izzy said:

First time today that this has officially got real for me.

 

I've got a major client based in Dublin where I'm supposed to be working 6 days over the next 3 weeks. The most lucrative work I do and significant income to me.

 

They've proper shit themselves over this virus and told all 8000 employees to work from home and the work I've got planned in has all been postponed or cancelled.

 

Now into the delightful arguments around cancellation terms/fees/contracts and all that shit 

Will you still be paid? 

[Heathrow fox]

Flybe on verge of going bust now,due to a drop in bookings.

[Toddybad]

41 minutes ago, Izzy said:

First time today that this has officially got real for me.

 

I've got a major client based in Dublin where I'm supposed to be working 6 days over the next 3 weeks. The most lucrative work I do and significant income to me.

 

They've proper shit themselves over this virus and told all 8000 employees to work from home and the work I've got planned in has all been postponed or cancelled.

 

Now into the delightful arguments around cancellation terms/fees/contracts and all that shit 

Google?

[Izzy]

19 minutes ago, FoxesDeb said:

Will you still be paid? 

Hopefully Deb. The good news is that I've had a purchase order for it all and my invoices are already in their system (although they could manually cancel them I guess)

 

I'm very clear with clients in advance about cancellation terms, and if they cancel within 30 days I still expect full payment (although not legally binding and big corporates could probably weasel their way out of this if they could be arsed).

 

As a gesture, I'll offer to do the work at a later date for a reduced fee - hopefully they'll be ok with that 

[Izzy]

2 minutes ago, Toddybad said:

Google?

I couldn't possibly say Toddy 

[Toddybad]

Just now, Izzy said:

I couldn't possibly say Toddy 

Of course, client confidentiality. Could be anybody in the alphabet soup of companies out there.

[The People's Hero]

I wouldn't mind have Google as a client. Wonder if they want any terrorism insurance? I do quite a bit of business out in Dublin.

 

[brucey]

2 hours ago, Costock_Fox said:

I’m off to Bergamo in a month to watch Atalanta, beat that bitches.

Good luck with that

 

[VLC86]

2 minutes ago, brucey said:

Good luck with that

 

The match is at Easter but same principle applys.

[Toddybad]

Italy had 3 cases two weeks ago. 

Why are we pissing about and not just doing the same now. They've closed all schools and universities too.

[Countryfox]

[Nod.E]

What's the worst case scenario then? 650,000 UK cases sounds like a pretty big number doesn't it? That's still only 1% of the population. Can't imagine it has the potential to be worse than that?

 

Yeah it's probably going to cause deaths and panic in hospitals but don't we have plenty of that anyway? 

 

If you told me 1% of the population will win £1million each, I wouldn't get my hopes up. 

 

Even if I did end up being part of the 1%, I have an immune system, so pretty sure I'd be fine.

 

Aware this all sounds very selfish and yes there will be vulnerable people that perish. But then, a cold winter does that, too.

 

I'm not an expert so if somebody wants to tell me otherwise, please do. But ultimately most people will be absolutely fine. The main adverse impact of all this will come from all the irrational panic.

 

[The Syrup]

3 hours ago, Heathrow fox said:

Flybe on verge of going bust now,due to a drop in bookings.

They've been on the verge of going bust long before Corona came a thing... even with Virgin Atlantic part owning them. Corona virus may well be the final kick in the nuts though 

[Legend_in_blue]

I was looking forward to 007 but now it's a November wait?  Crazy times.

[The People's Hero]

39 minutes ago, Nod.E said:

What's the worst case scenario then? 650,000 UK cases sounds like a pretty big number doesn't it? That's still only 1% of the population. Can't imagine it has the potential to be worse than that?

 

Yeah it's probably going to cause deaths and panic in hospitals but don't we have plenty of that anyway? 

 

If you told me 1% of the population will win £1million each, I wouldn't get my hopes up. 

 

Even if I did end up being part of the 1%, I have an immune system, so pretty sure I'd be fine.

 

Aware this all sounds very selfish and yes there will be vulnerable people that perish. But then, a cold winter does that, too.

 

I'm not an expert so if somebody wants to tell me otherwise, please do. But ultimately most people will be absolutely fine. The main adverse impact of all this will come from all the irrational panic.

 

That kind of straight talking common sense is refreshing, but ultimately not welcome here.

 

Go and buy 682 cans of beans, more rice than you could ever eat and enough toilet roll to last you 17 years and then come back and we'll take you seriously.

 

We're all going to get CV and we will all die.

[VLC86]

15 minutes ago, Legend_in_blue said:

I was looking forward to 007 but now it's a November wait?  Crazy times.

Apparently it’s being called just “Time to die” now.

[Captain...]

57 minutes ago, Nod.E said:

What's the worst case scenario then? 650,000 UK cases sounds like a pretty big number doesn't it? That's still only 1% of the population. Can't imagine it has the potential to be worse than that?

 

Yeah it's probably going to cause deaths and panic in hospitals but don't we have plenty of that anyway? 

 

If you told me 1% of the population will win £1million each, I wouldn't get my hopes up. 

 

Even if I did end up being part of the 1%, I have an immune system, so pretty sure I'd be fine.

 

Aware this all sounds very selfish and yes there will be vulnerable people that perish. But then, a cold winter does that, too.

 

I'm not an expert so if somebody wants to tell me otherwise, please do. But ultimately most people will be absolutely fine. The main adverse impact of all this will come from all the irrational panic.

 

The worst case scenario is 80% of the population will end having caught the disease and a fifth of the population could have it at the same time.

 

Ultimately if you're fit and healthy with no existing respiratory conditions and catch it you should be fine. Should you have any complications or a completely unrelated issue that requires hospitalisation you're in trouble because the NHS is going to take a battering in all this.

 

So just in case wash your hands.

 

 

[Vacamion]

4 hours ago, The People's Hero said:

Yeah. The bro-in-law does AV for events and stuff and has had loads of work cancelled/postponed.

 

Bit shit really. 

 

 

My firm has an agreement to go and sit amongst our biggest client's call centre kids.  There are about 300 of them in their call centre.  It generates loads of work for us.

 

They bobbed their pants last week and put a ban on all suppliers from visiting them

 

To me, this only seems logical if all their staff never leave the office and don't interact with people outside their work.

 

How would we, as their suppliers, present more of a risk than their staff's kids mingling with others at school, or their staff grabbing infected door handles, stair rails or supermarket trolley handles when they are outside work 

[Izzy]

Piss poor effort tbh 

 

 

[The Syrup]

4 hours ago, Heathrow fox said:

Flybe on verge of going bust now,due to a drop in bookings.

Final flight landed at Exeter airport and the website has gone offline... looks like thats it for Flybe